Part of my vacation time I like to spend learning and playing with tech. As I spend every waking moment of my professional day in the “frontend” space, I wanted to step back into the “backend” space and my roots of PHP and explore what’s new with PHP8 in particular. Read more…
I am extremely proud today to officially release the php-decoupler from SterlingTS as an open-source project that my colleague Ken Ploeger and I will be maintaining at Sterling Talent Solutions. Ken led the vast majority of the efforts of this project in parallel with helping lead our globalization efforts at Read more…
When you’re working with JWT Token Authentication and you want to be a well behaved software developer and build out your Unit Tests (in this case we’re using phpunit), it can be somewhat challenging to tackle out of the box. My solution here uses an inherited “service” that generates the token that Read more…
Architecting an application and deciding on the key components of the technology stack that go into building it is an important task. If software hadn’t worked out as a career, my backup was construction. There are many similarities – from crafting the blueprints to laying the foundation, from choosing your Read more…
You can download and use the role here: https://github.com/litwicki/ansible-php7 roles/php7/tasks/main.yml — – name: fix proxy for Ubuntu shell: sudo echo “nameserver 8.8.8.8” | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf > /dev/null – name: Update apt sudo: yes apt: update_cache=yes – name: Install System Packages sudo: yes apt: pkg={{ item }} state=latest with_items: – curl Read more…
Is there a better way to spend an evening than with some single malt and some code?
Easily add some logic to filter out specific entities from an ArrayCollection in Symfony2. In this simple example, I wrote an app that had Node, and Comment entities separately, as well as an explicitly defined NodeComment entity. In my Node entity, I want to serialize all of the associated comments. But rather than Read more…
phpStorm has a wonderful feature called Live Templates that lets you quickly and easily define code templates (what I usually refer to as a snippet) for code you frequently have to write. For example: Foreach loops on a standard array of entities ($entities) Symfony isGranted checks via security.context Getters or setters Read more…
I use phpStorm for most of my development unless I plan to get in and out very quickly, at which point I use SublimeText. phpStorm has a very useful tool to auto-generate a .gitignore file, but it doesn’t quite cover all the bases for my development environments (usually including Vagrant). Read more…
I recently built an app that required we update the authenticated user’s lastOnlineDate every session so we can quickly track who has been online in the last interval of time. We set this interval as a parameter and used that to avoid hitting the database more than absolutely necessary to accomplish Read more…